We experiment vibrating objects, not as vibrations, but as sounds. ... Colours, sounds, smells and tastes are products of our minds, built from sensory experiences. ... These secondary qualities were colours, sounds, tastes, shape, etc. ... This gives epistemology, the methodical study of what we can know and how we can know it. ... I will suppose that sky, air, earth, colours, shapes, sounds and all external objects are mere delusive dreams, by means of which he lays snares for my credulity. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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